Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

After the birth of three pups has been called the "de-extinction" of a species not seen on Earth in more than 10,000 years, the company that made it possible has it sights set on resurrecting more ...

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction. But despite its fame, astonishingly little is known about this large, flightless bird. Scientists are attempting to ...